Articles

• A "Typical" Week Homeschooling Grades 1-3 by Tamara Eaton
  
• A Homeschooler's CheckList by Tamara Eaton
  Public schools are in session again in our hometown and although we homeschool year-round in a relaxed style, our children have been motivated to create a new fall schedule and get ready for another homeschool year. Perhaps you're an inexperienced homeschooler and tempted to panic or feel overwhelmed. Look at this checklist to see if you've missed anything in preparing for this new year!
• A Short Incomplete List of Do's and Don'ts by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Anti-Homeschooling Excuses: Are They Valid? by Tamara Eaton
  
• Back to School List: Essentials for This School Year! by Tamara Eaton
  
• Bouncing the Back-to-School Blues by Hilary Evans
  
• Decision Time by Beverly S. Krueger
  It’s decision time for many homeschool families. The curriculum fair has come and gone. Homeschool catalogs have been pored over. Product reviews have been read. Now it’s decision time.
• Doing It All: The Struggle for Your Family by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Doing It All: The Struggle for Your Home by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Doing It All: The Struggle for Your Mind by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• EHO Homeschooling FAQ by EHO Staff
  Read the Eclectic Homeschool Online Homeschooling Frequently Asked Questions article.
• Flexibility by Tammy M. Cardwell
  
• Genetics and Ability by Maribeth Spangenberg
  
• Getting the Most from Your Support Group by Beverly S. Krueger
  Support groups are a marvelous place to share our concerns, get encouragement, and participate in activities we cannot do on our own. There are many different kinds of support groups. Some offer group teaching while others are informal gatherings at the park. Whether your support group provides you the support you are looking for will depend on the type of group it is.
• Gotta “Get” It by Tammy Marshall Cardwell
  
• Helping the Newbie by Tammy M. Cardwell
  
• Homeschooling as a Money-Saving Choice by Rhonda Barfield
  I won’t presume to say whether public, private or home school is best for your family. However, if financial considerations are an important aspect of your decision, you may want to consider homeschool. Here’s why.
• How to Become a Patient, Fulfilled, and Happy Homeschool Mom by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• I Can't Homeschool! My Kids Would Drive Me Nuts! by Beverly S. Krueger
  Are you one of those that regularly states that you haven't the patience to be around your children all day, day in and day out? Is this a position you really want to take? Do you really want to claim that you haven't the patience or the means to attain the patience to become more intimately involved in the lives of those you love and who love you?
• More Homeschool FAQs by EHO Staff
  Homeschooling FAQs put together by other homeschooler on the Internet.
• Ordinarily Extraordinary by Beverly S. Krueger
  I’ve always believed that ordinary people can do extraordinary things through the power of the Holy Spirit. I’ve seen it happen to some of the most common people in the world.
• Other People's Little Geniuses by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Purchasing 101: Forget the Curriculum; What Else Do I Buy!? by Tammy M. Cardwell
  
• Sifting Through the Advice
  Experienced Homeschoolers Speak About the Advice
  They Were Given as Beginning Homeschoolers by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Simple Fellowship by Larissa McKay
  
• Sour Grapes or Turned Around Truth? by Tammy M. Cardwell
  
• Source of Homeschool Prosperity by Maribeth Spangenberg
  
• Special Beginning Homeschooling EHO Links by EHO Staff
  Find answers to all your support, legal, curriculum and special needs homeschooling questions.
• Starting out with Older Kids by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Taking the Plunge into Homeschooling by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• The First Week of Homeschool by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• The Truth About Education by G.K. Chesterton
  
• Too Much Encouragement? by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Vision for the Future by Michele Hastings
  
• What Constitutes a Good Education? by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• What Defines Homeschool Success? by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• What is an Accidental Homeschooler? by John Edelson
  While some families know from the start that they want to homeschool, others arrive somewhat "accidentally". These are families who had initially put their children in traditional schools. Then, “something” happens. Perhaps it happens over and over or different “things” happen. Sometimes there are a few classroom or school changes but it still is not working. The problems can be with other students, the school culture, the academics, or even the faculty and staff. But over time, it becomes clear that traditional schools are not working and they become convinced that the available schools are unacceptable.

Unit Study Articles

• Beyond Pudding: How Expectations Make the Education by Lisa Tiffin
  One of the reasons we chose to homeschool is that we feel schools today are not challenging the minds of the young people entrusted to their care. It seems to me that expectations have been lowered to such a point that, while inclusive of every possible learner, have nevertheless lowered both the level of learning and the self-esteem of the learner. We learned over the summer that the more we expected from and the more we challenged our boys, the more they learned.
• Creating Your Own Unit Studies by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Graphics Organizers: A Helpful Tool for Unit Study Learning by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Mini Units by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Organizing Your Own Unit Studies by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Pulling Together Resources for High School History Unit Studies by Beverly S. Krueger
  
• Social Studies Unit Studies on the Web by EHO Staff
  

Latest Out and About - Articles on the Web

• An A for Home Schooling by Brian C. Anderson
  Home schooling first showed up on the national radar screen in 1997, when 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon, all brains and awkward gestures, won the National Spelling Bee, showing a startled public that her unorthodox education must be doing something right. Today, though home schooling accounts for only 3 or 4 percent of America's schoolchildren, the movement's brisk 15 percent annual growth rate has become a powerful, hard to ignore indictment of the nation's academically underachieving, morally irresolute, disorderly, and often scary public schools. Side by side with public education's lackluster results, the richness of home schooling's achievement—the wealth of challenging subjects its pupils learn, the civility it inculcates, the strong characters it seems to form, and the nurturing family life it reinforces—embodies a practical ideal of childhood and education that can serve as a useful benchmark of what is possible in turn-of-the-millennium America.
• Reasons To Homeschool by National Home Education Network
  The results of a survey in which homeschoolers gave over 50 reasons why they decided to start homeschooling.
• Deschooling - What it is and Does it Apply to My Family? by Lenore Colacion Hayes
  Deschooling is the process by which one adapts to the abandonment of traditional learning concepts. This presents itself differently in two varied populations - how it applies to and is processed by the children involved and how the parents of these children learn to cope with the concept of "oh-no-what-do-I-do-now-that-my-children-are-not-in-school?"

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